Welcome to my website

 

The memoir “Insulting behaviour...and other misdemeanours” has been revised and

 includes some new written material, particularly in Chapters 4, 5, 10 and 11, with

photographs and other illustrations.

 

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Wynford Hicks

wynford@hicksinfrance.net

Insulting behaviour...and other misdemeanours

 

A memoir in five parts

Introduction

Part one: CATHOLIC CHILDHOOD

Chapter 1: Sevenoaks to Seaford by way of Bexhill and Wadhurst

Chapter 2: surviving Stonyhurst, the Jesuit college, a very military public school

Part two: ANARCHIST YOUTH

Chapter 3: Christ Church, Oxford, drinking, drugs and debating with Etonians

Chapter 4: CND, Charlotte Fawcett, the Committee of 100 and prison

Chapter 5: Notting Hill anarchists, Stuart Christie’s story, Anarchist Youth magazine

Part three: “ROLL OVER, BEETHOVEN”   

Chapter 6: Paris in 1960, hedonism & hitchhiking, the Daily Mail & Top of the Pops

Chapter 7:  Swinging London, Ready, Steady, Go!, pirate radio & Spurs

Chapter 8: a gap year – up the Nile to Kampala, Mombasa, India & the hippy trail

Part four: WORK, PLAY AND POLITICS

Chapter 9: 1968 & all that, Freedom, Cornmarket Press, Enoch Powell (by Paul Foot)

Chapter 10: Welcome aboard (BOAC), features & subbing for Radio Times, a stint at the TLS

Chapter 11: the Alternative dummy, the Ink fiasco, Inside Story & Wildcat

Part five: EDUCATION, EDUCATION, EDUCATION

Chapter 12:  the comprehensive revolution: theory (Anthony Crosland) and practice (Pimlico)

Chapter 13: the English question, “more will mean worse”, Garnett College of Education,

English for Journalists, the “fronted adverbial”

 

Postscript: a visit to Mallorca

 

All Chapters as a single file

wynford@hicksinfrance.net

Wynford Hicks was schooled by the Jesuits at Stonyhurst College and won a scholarship in history to Christ Church, Oxford, where he was secretary of the Oxford Union debating society and chaired the university Labour club; joined the anti-nuclear Committee of 100 and co-founded the Oxford anarchist group; taught in east London schools for a year; worked for the Daily Mail, Radio Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the Observer magazine, Police Review and Cornmarket Press where he edited BOAC’s inflight magazine; wrote a column for Freedom, the anarchist weekly; founded and edited the alternative news magazine Inside Story; and taught journalism from 1978 to 1996 at the London College of Printing, City University and various publishing companies. His books include English for Journalists, now in its fifth edition, and Quite Literally, both published by Routledge.